Don’t panic! Very often webmasters face nightmare when a site goes down or inaccessible.

The very first thing to do is go to a free web based proxy site

http://www.hidemyass.com

and see if your site loads properly. There could be network problems with your ISP in your local area which may cause your browser to unable to load the site.

If your site loads fine in the proxy then there is no problem with the your site. Just …

Shrink High Resolution Photo to small size for Upload

Nowadays sharing photos online has become so common among many people and most photos come out of camera device have huge file sizes because of more resolution and megapixel. The more the resolution and megapixel the larger the filesize. The fact is you wont even need the photos with the bigger size (> 4mb per photo). Imagine you have about 10 photos you need to upload and each photo is 3mb is …

i really hate antivirus softwares slowing down the PC. i have 2GB of RAM with core2duo processor and inspite of that, antivirus softwares make my PC bogged down. With over 300GB of data to scan, it takes forever for antivirus softwares to scan the PC.

Here are the results of various antivirus softwares which i have purchased and used in my PC.

AVG Antivirus (Free) – Slowdown
Norton Antivirus (Paid) – Slowdown
Kaspersky Antivirus (Paid) – Fast
Avast Antivirus (Free) – Fast

Clearly, my favorites …

how to convert video from avi to DVD?

i am not a pro when comes to video editing and conversion. I am sharing here some of the easy tips on converting large avi file to dvd format.

My situation:

I had a 3 hour very large home video (about 30GB file size) in avi format from my Sony Handycam in miniDV cassette.

What i wanted

My goals were to transcode/convert the 3hr video from miniDV cassette and compress the video in such a way …

i recently purchased plug2surf wireless internet USB modem and i was given a CDMA sim card along with USB pluggable pen drive modem.

I tried to connect to internet and everytime i get

“Error 721: The remote computer did not respond”

and still not able to connect to internet once. All i am seeing is authenticating > authenticated and then error 721 with the tata indicom dialer and ofcourse i am able to get full signal strength. Many people were suggesting the possible …

TCP/UDP Port Numbers

I have compiled some of the very useful list of port numbers (unofficial) used by server administrators. If you are managing a server under VPS or dedicated, this could be more than helpful. You can also refer to Official Port Number & Assignments from IANA website or even a TCP/UDP ports from wikipedia.

Port 21 –> TCP –> FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Port 22 –> TCP/UDP –> SSH (ssh,scp copy or sftp)
Port 23 –> TCP/UDP –> Telnet
Port …

Easy way to create a favicon for your Website

Favicon gives a discrete iconic look for your website or blog. The usual size of favicon is 16×16 pixels or 32×32 pixels and give its name to favicon.ico and upload to where your homepage resides.

To create favicon.ico

1. Create a 100×100 pixel PNG image in photoshop with transparency.

2. Upload the image to favicon creator which will automatically convert to icon. You can also use Irfanview software if you want to do it offline. …

Markup editors set a new trend on the Web and i have seen many many websites use markup editors than using WYSIWYG editors. The main difference between WYSIWYG editors and Markup editors is markup editors insert markup html or bbcode in textarea while WYSIWYG editors give rich text environment to users. Markup editors are fast loading because of their simplicity and small code which is another advantage. Most markup editors are capable of inserting HTML, CSS, XML, Wiki syntax, BBCode …

How to write a Press Release

• Important Press Release Writing Tips
• Sample Press Release Format
• Free website to publish your press release

Sending press releases to media is considered an important marketing method commonly employed by many businesses and internet firms very often.

A very well crafted press release if picked up by a journalist can bring enormous free publicity to you through broadcast media and other outlets. Often many people have been invited to TV shows and radio interviews.

You dont …

If you are having BSNL Dataone internet connection at home, probably you would encounter different connectivity problems and error codes.

Here are the most common error codes associated with Dataone which might help you to resolve the problem.

Error 678:

Line/ Physical Fault (ADSL link unavailable) or poor connectivity.

Error 769:

LAN card disabled

Try to enable the LAN card and install driver.

Error 797

Problem with DSL Modem or LAN driver.

Error 718

High load and peak hour error.
Try after some time. Try to …